The story of Rose starts with being a brother

Chapter 168 Epilogue (Part ) My Wife's Heart is as Sharp as a Knife, and the Devil is in My Heart
There are three great joys in life: recovering what was lost, meeting again after a long separation, and a false alarm. But Na Jun feels that there should also be an additional event: catching an adulterer by mistake.

He clearly saw that after Shen Lei pushed open the door, the expression on his face changed from pain, anger, shock to confusion, relaxation, pleasure and other states in just a dozen seconds.

Xie Meilan also experienced a variety of emotions including surprise, confusion, anger, etc., which was a second-level reversal between her and Shen Lei.

Especially when Shen Lei rushed over, he happened to meet the group of people who were having a meeting in the conference room.

Well, in this big room, besides his wife, there were several men... and several women.

And because of what Shen Lei and Xie Meilan did just now, everyone understood that the other party was here to catch someone cheating.

So after a brief moment of confusion, everyone started watching the show with great interest, except for Lu Jie who had a livid face and Xie Meilan who was embarrassed.

As for Na Jun, he was still at the door. As soon as the door opened, he silently protected Shen Lei in front of him.

……

In the evening, at Shen Lei's house.

"Shen Lei, are you satisfied now? Are you happy?"

"Honey, I'm sorry, I misunderstood you."

"Misunderstanding? Is this a misunderstanding? You are the typical person who is always causing trouble but not being able to accomplish anything!"

"How could you say that to me, honey?"

"Did I say anything wrong? I've been married to you for so many years, and I don't have a car or a house. I can't see a way forward. Even when my mom was hospitalized and died of illness, you didn't do anything!"

After going around in circles, Xie Meilan brought everything back to the starting point.

As the saying goes, "A poor couple has many sorrows." The greatest pain is that any conflict or problem can ultimately be attributed to lack of money.

This quarrel between Shen Lei and Xie Meilan was a return to the past, and they were still dissatisfied with the current situation.

However, Xie Meilan also mixed in her flattery of Lu Jie, including this afternoon when Lu Jie suppressed his anger and kindly said that he didn't mind this matter, and that the other party promoted her to director and so on.

However, this also made Shen Lei, who was originally prepared to swallow his anger, suddenly ask a question:
"The 100,000 yuan for your mother's medical treatment was given by Lu Jie, right?"

"..."

As soon as these words came out, Xie Meilan's aggressive tone froze. After a long silence, she looked Shen Lei in the eye and said directly:

"Not just 100,000, but 400,000! And my mother's last hospital bed was also found by Lu Jie!"

In the past, Xie Meilan and Shen Lei never mentioned this matter when they quarreled. After all, a quarrel should be justified. If she talked about this matter, wouldn’t she feel insecure?
A female subordinate borrowed a large sum of money from her male boss who had always been interested in her. Who would believe her if she said there was no affair involved?
Immorality! Taboo Office...

So Xie Meilan definitely couldn't say it out loud, otherwise yellow mud would fall out of her crotch.

But this is a different time now. Since I have already decided to hook up with a rich man, I might as well be frank about it.

After today's far-fetched incident, Xie Meilan realized that she couldn't let it go on any longer.

If we drag it on any longer, what if Mr. Lu is no longer interested in her?
Coincidentally, the misunderstanding caused by Shen Lei also gave her an excuse to lose her temper.

Shen Lei was indeed very shocked when he heard this, and he thought of something almost instantly.

Thanks to the rehearsal during this period, he subconsciously stared at Xie Meilan's belly, then pointed at her with a trembling finger:

"He gave you 400,000 yuan, right? The child is actually his?"

"Snapped!"

Xie Meilan immediately slapped him and cursed:

"Put away your dirty thoughts and stop slandering my character! Shen Lei, let me tell you, he was willing to lend me 400,000 yuan because it was nothing to him. He helped me when I was most helpless and desperate. I am grateful to him, but I have never sold myself out for this!"

"When you were in the most difficult and helpless time, didn't I use all our savings to treat your mother's illness? Didn't I accompany you the whole time?"

"What did you do when I asked you to find someone to use your connections to find that bed..."

Well, finally I got back on track.

In short, after all this going around in circles and arguing for a long time, Xie Meilan's ultimate goal was only one.

"Shen Lei, let's get divorced!"

……

Just when Shen Lei and Xie Meilan were getting divorced, another couple also started a fight.

Master Juekong, who had been practicing in the mountains for not long, finally couldn't hold back and returned to secular life as Wang Ruizhi to start a fight with Qin Lingling.

There was no way. Ever since Qin Lingling handed the matter over to Qin Feng, she began to concentrate on tracking down the whereabouts of Xu Yimei and Xu Yichao.

Being a mistress is a small matter, but stealing family property is a big matter!
With Qin Lingling's efforts, the brother and sister were finally caught in Zhijiang Province.

At this time, Xu Yichao had already thrown away the shell of Mei Cancan and replaced it with a new one.

And just as Qin Lingling had expected, Liu Yan, the cousin of her husband who had been fired by her not long ago, was actually helping the brother and sister in secret.

After being married for so many years, the Qin and Wang’s families have always been just two families!

So, to which family does their son belong?

In short, Qin Lingling was furious. She first used the share of Daily Beauty Group to chase after Xu Yichao, and then talked to the other party's distributors.

You know, the distributors that Xu Yichao contacted were attracted by the name of Everyday Beauty in the past. Although they are separated now, he did not tell the public about the twists and turns involved.

So after being treated like this by Qin Lingling, he suffered heavy losses.

He had no choice but to go to the mountains to ask Master Juekong to come out.

Well, Juekong, that’s not right. When Wang Ruizhi was leaving the mountain, the court summons from the East was also on the way.

Qin Lingling is really determined to fight with her husband this time, whether it is through litigation or business means. She not only intends to kill Xu Yichao and Xu Yimei, but also wants them to return the money.

Although she is not good at her career, she is still somewhat good at playing tricks on others, and she has her brother Qin Feng to help her.

Qin Feng really only focuses his skills on playing pranks on others, and his level is even higher than Qin Lingling.

In the original drama, he could handle the social engagements assigned to him by Qin Lingling while letting the fool Na Wei take the blame for him and still make Na Wei grateful to him.

So now he is given room to perform.

Wang Ruizhi also had to step down, not only for the money, but also because Xu Yimei had given birth to a child for him, who was younger and prettier than the current hag. He had no choice but to step down.

He really wanted to mediate, but unfortunately Qin Lingling didn't give him the opportunity. Moreover, Xu Yimei was forcibly sent abroad, and now that she is back, she naturally hates Qin Lingling.

The mistress' fight with the original wife has always been a lively and interesting drama since ancient times...

In short, Qin Lingling and Wang Ruizhi were about to have a big fight.

……

"Xiaoyue, when are you going to learn how to make pastries and do carpentry?"

The next night, Na Jun, who had just got off work, took Li Xiaoyue, who had just been laid off, to eat hotpot together.

Li Xiaoyue's hard days in the beauty industry finally came to an end yesterday when she bumped into Qin Feng at work and spilled the coffee on him.

What’s different from the original drama is that this time she really accepted the resignation happily and had no intention of going back to work at all.

In this regard, Na Wei advised Li Xiaoyue not to be impulsive, but Li Xiaoyue pulled Na Jun to speak for her, indicating that she really didn't want to stay in the company anymore.

So Na Wei didn't set a trap for Qin Feng and Qin Lingling as in the original drama to ask them to persuade Li Xiaoyue to go back. He could only try his best to help her get some compensation.

In the hot pot restaurant, Li Xiaoyue was boiling tripe and said with a relaxed look:

"Take a rest for two days, then I'll look for places that recruit apprentices."

Na Jun nodded while browsing his phone: "Okay, if you have some free time during this period, you can go and take a look at the house renovation."

"Don't worry, I promise to complete the mission!"

Li Xiaoyue smiled playfully, and seeing that her boyfriend did not rush her, she very sensibly put the blanched tripe in his bowl.

Na Jun, however, was somewhat unsatisfied. He opened his mouth and waited for his girlfriend to feed him while typing on his phone.

Li Xiaoyue rolled her eyes at him in annoyance, but still took the initiative to dip the tripe into the sauce and put it into the other person's mouth.

"Why are you staring at your phone while you're eating with me?"

Seeing that the man didn't even look at her, Li Xiaoyue felt unhappy. She moved closer to see who he was messaging and typing away.

Na Jun didn't stop her, he just put the phone in front of her and said with a smile: "Comfort the heartbroken divorced man online."

Li Xiaoyue was a little confused when she heard this, but when she looked down at the chat name on her phone, she was shocked.

"Shen Lei is divorced?"

"Not yet, but soon."

After hearing what her boyfriend said, Li Xiaoyue asked curiously:

"He and Sister Meilan are really going to divorce?"

Na Jun smiled and said, "It's just the same old story. You can ask him about it later."

"what?"

"I called him over and he's on his way now."

Li Xiaoyue nodded, and then began to look through the chat history between her boyfriend and Shen Lei.

I watched it and shook my head, it was like eating melon while eating hot pot.

It was Na Jun's turn to blanch the dishes, but he still gave a reminder:
"Just eat the melon now. Don't laugh when Shen Lei comes over later!"

"Don't worry, I know what's going on."

Li Xiaoyue glanced over the chat records and couldn't help but sigh: "It's really a bit ridiculous!"

"How can it be called a marriage without blood and gossip?"

Na Jun responded with a smile, and at this time Li Xiaoyue also commented sharply:

"Why do I feel like this situation is like the story of Wu Dalang, Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing?"

"Hahaha, I think so too."

Na Jun agreed, then clinked glasses with his girlfriend in tacit understanding.

If it were the Li Xiaoyue of the past, she might still be worried about this matter. After all, they were all in the same group and subconsciously regarded everyone as a family.

But after hearing and seeing what Na Jun had seen and heard these days, she also knew that Xie Meilan and Shen Lei, two completely contradictory people, would eventually meet each other in trouble.

Even including yesterday's erroneous incident of catching someone cheating, Na Jun told her about it. At that time, she concluded that the two of them would definitely have a big fight.

However, she had not yet directly thought that Shen Lei and Xie Meilan would divorce. After all, she felt that since Xie Meilan was pregnant, it should not lead to a divorce.

Who would have thought that Xie Meilan was serious this time?

That child……

"That's right, Xie Meilan still wants to abort our child!"

After a while, Shen Lei arrived. He was not in the mood to eat. He drank half a bottle of wine before starting to cry about his miserable life.

In the end, what made him even more sad was that he was about to lose his own child.

After listening to this, Na Jun looked at Li Xiaoyue and asked:

"Do you agree to divorce?"

"Why should I agree to let this pair of dogs and bitches live together?"

Shen Lei answered excitedly. He had clearly thought that it was all a false alarm before, but he had not expected that the situation would turn out like this in the blink of an eye.

Li Xiaoyue didn't know how to persuade him for a moment and could only look at her boyfriend. Na Jun shook his head and silently picked up the beer and clinked it with Shen Lei.

After a while, Na Jun asked again: "What are you going to do next? It's not a good idea to keep dragging it out like this. You still have to work."

"I..." Shen Lei subconsciously wanted to say something, but when the words came to his lips, he hesitated and held them back.

Seeing this, Na Jun said directly: "You are not planning to keep dragging it out and hiding away like I said last time, right?"

After discovering that his hidden thoughts had been exposed, Shen Lei lowered his head, not knowing what to say.

Na Jun thought for a moment and then continued:

"Leizi, tell me the truth, you should have expected this situation before, right?"

Without waiting for Shen Lei to answer, Na Jun continued to talk to himself:
"Last time we talked, you should have been mentally prepared. No, it should be said that when you first saw Lu Jie in the ward, you must have thought about this kind of thing. Now that it has happened, the worst-case scenario is just what you expected at the beginning. You have never known what to do. So what about now? Are you still only able to passively accept it?"

"..."

Li Xiaoyue tugged at Na Jun's clothes and whispered in his ear:
"Are you being too hurtful to him by saying that?"

Na Jun blinked at her, indicating that everything was fine.

It is impossible for a normal couple not to have wild thoughts when they see a rival in love, especially a rival who is better than themselves.

If I think positively, it means that my partner still loves me firmly. If I think negatively, it means...

Especially the couple Shen Lei and Xie Meilan, who had always been on the verge of emotional exhaustion. Before Xie Meilan was hospitalized, she had never been in a good mood towards Shen Lei.

Doesn't the licker know that he is licking? He knows, but he just doesn't want to face it.

Although Shen Lei is not a bootlicker, his wife's cold response cannot help but make him nervous. After Lu Jie appeared, it is impossible for him not to think of the current situation.

What's more, when Na Jun chatted with him before, he always set up this situation for him intentionally or unintentionally.

As for yesterday’s misunderstanding of catching the couple cheating, it was just the last glimmer of light in this relationship before it dies. It will eventually come to an end.

Shen Lei poured himself a glass of wine in silence. After he finished the remaining half bottle in his hand, he said something that seemed irrelevant.

"Isn't it just a few bucks? Xie Meilan would rather be without a name or status than not follow him!"

"Wow~"

Li Xiaoyue looked at Na Jun again. She didn't expect to hear such explosive news.

Just before Shen Lei came over tonight, Xie Meilan slapped the divorce agreement in front of him.

When Shen Lei was trying to keep Lu Jie, he also directly revealed the news that Lu Jie was already married, which was news he had only received in the past two days.

However, Xie Meilan still said coldly: "Even if I become someone's mistress, it's better than following a loser like you!"

These words were a huge blow to Shen Lei, and his mentality was instantly broken.

So even if he had a mental assumption, he still burned the divorce agreement just like in the original drama.

Now that he had a drink, Shen Lei didn't care about anything else and just told everyone everything.

"Four hundred thousand! When Xie Meilan asked Lu Jie to borrow this money, was it really as simple as just asking her boss for money?"

"Since she borrowed 400,000 yuan and changed the hospital bed, what was the final result? Didn't she fail to save her mother? Then why is she still blaming me for not lending money to save her mother?"

"I also took out all my savings! I even borrowed 200,000 yuan from my sister for the cemetery!"

"Isn't it just because of the money? Our relationship of so many years, our marriage, our children, are only worth these four hundred thousand?"

"She dragged her suitcase out tonight, wasn't it just because she wanted to move into Lu Jie's big house as soon as possible? And she kept saying that she and Lu Jie were innocent!"

"..."

Shen Lei's face turned red as he spoke, and he drank a sip of wine with every word he spoke. If Na Jun had not had the foresight to book a private room in advance, there would definitely be a crowd of people surrounding him by now.

After talking for a while, Shen Lei just kept drinking, and finally cried and said:
"I, I know you all want to persuade me to make progress, but I just want to find a place to live in peace and stability, even if it's just farming in the countryside. To be honest, when you asked me if I wanted to be a hermit, I was actually very tempted."

Shen Lei's words sounded like a bunch of nonsense to Na Jun, and Li Xiaoyue could only sigh inwardly that this was also a person who didn't want to get involved.

Of course, no matter how much we sigh, it is impossible to regard Shen Lei as a fellow traveler.

Although Li Xiaoyue doesn't like to compete, her main goal is to enjoy life in the moment, play whenever she wants, and not waste her life on boring work.

Shen Lei's so-called roll is to avoid the world passively. In terms of enjoying life, he can't go to the movies on Sundays because he has to go to work the next day. He can only go to the suburbs of Beijing during short holidays because he is afraid of being too rushed. It is best not to move during long holidays because he doesn't want to be crowded...

Therefore, Shen Lei's non-curiosity, which is afraid of trouble and only seeks stability, is incompatible with Li Xiaoyue's non-curiosity, which is to live in the present and enjoy the world.

Na Jun had analyzed this situation before, and Li Xiaoyue smacked her lips and shook her head after hearing it. This was also the reason why she also felt that Shen Lei and Xie Meilan would not last long.

To put it bluntly, if Na Jun's personality suddenly changed from a rollicking one to one like Shen Lei, she would probably have to break up with this boyfriend sooner or later.

After listening to Shen Lei's complaints, Li Xiaoyue's expression changed from frowning as if eating melon to frowning as if watching a sad drama.

She wanted to comfort the other person, but after thinking about it, she didn't know what to say. It was just a breakup and divorce, couldn't she be more open and honest?

After Na Jun pondered for a moment, he suddenly asked:
"Shen Lei, have you read Walden?"

"See, what's wrong?"

Shen Lei covered his face and answered that Walden was a book he liked very much. He longed for the life of Thoreau, who lived away from the world and lived by the lake, which was in line with his mentality of escaping from the world and meditating.

"Then do you envy Thoreau's life?"

"..."

Shen Lei didn't answer, but he also agreed.

So Na Jun borrowed the line from the original play and said, "Do you know why Thoreau could build a house on Walden Pond?"

"..."

Shen Lei still didn't speak, but Na Jun answered for him:
"It's because his good friend Emerson bought the land, and he himself is also a rich second-generation."

In the original drama, Shen Lei lived in seclusion in a small mountain village in western Guangdong Province. Later, the place where he lived was developed into an Internet celebrity spot by the village official Dong Zhiyong based on his tragic love story. He wanted to transform it. When Shen Lei was unwilling to move out, Dong Zhiyong used these words to satirize him for having nothing but imitating Thoreau to live in seclusion.

However, despite the irony, these words also woke Shen Lei up and shattered his fantasy of following the example of ancient sages and celebrities and living in seclusion.

It is worth mentioning that when Na Jun first saw this, he didn't understand whether the screenwriter made this part of the plot just for this sentence to wake up Shen Lei, or for some other purpose...

Village official Dong Zhiyong wanted to use the tragic love story of top student Shen Lei to make this place an Internet celebrity destination and then develop the tourism industry. This reason is actually quite outrageous.

This behavior is very similar to today's capital going to the countryside to grab land, create gimmicks, stir up a wave of popularity, and then make some short-term quick money in the tourism industry, etc.

It failed to put farmers at the center and failed to fit in with local cultural traditions. The end result was that capital enterprises benefited from subsidies and policies, and by the way, they were able to gain a certain reputation to better attract funds, while village officials and some other people were able to take advantage of this wave of GDP growth and be transferred away. In the end, only the ruined villages and the local farmers who were full of hope to get rich were left...

Na Jun was a capital player in his previous life, and he knew the tricks too well, so when he saw these plots at that time, he didn't know whether the screenwriter had made up the whole drama just for this little jealousy.

But now that the situation has not yet developed to that point, he told Shen Lei what Dong Zhiyong said in advance.

Although the time, place and people mentioned were all wrong, Na Jun felt that what he said had more or less had some effect.

If the second-generation rich Thoreau is useless, then there is the classic Tao Yuanming who served as an official five times and resigned five times, or the boss You in the movie "Party A and Party B" who insisted on going to the countryside and ended up eating all the chickens in the village...

In short, there is only one central idea.

"So, I don't have the qualifications and money to live in seclusion?"

As soon as Shen Lei said this, Na Jun laughed: "So I guessed it right before. You really want to hide away and live in seclusion."

This time, Shen Lei had no way to escape and could only nod silently.

In response, Na Jun said, "Of course it's fine if you want to be quiet. I can recommend a good place for you. There is a practice center in the mountains outside the capital. The scenery there is beautiful and there is no competition with the world. You can escape from the world if you want, or leave the world if you want."

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Xiaoyue looked at him strangely. Why did this place sound so familiar?
But the words were not finished yet: "But while you were hiding from the world, your wife, your first love of ten years, moved into that man's mansion, drove that man's luxury car, slept in that man's bed, hugged that man to sleep, and even aborted your child. She would often belittle you to please that man..."

"..."

Before Shen Lei could say anything, Li Xiaoyue was already getting a little impatient. Was he here to persuade someone?

She tugged at her boyfriend's sleeve, but Na Jun continued talking nonstop, so she typed a few words on her phone and handed it to him to read.

"Don't say it's spicy, you're just rubbing salt into the wound."

Na Jun curled his lips in a smile, picked up his phone and typed a line of words.

"Have you ever heard of the Dao Heart Planting Demon Method?"

……

At this moment, when Shen Lei was feeling uncomfortable, his wife Xie Meilan was arranged by Lu Jie to live in a big house as she wished.

Of course, as a "homeless" person, she still declined verbally and rejected Lu Jie's plan to intervene and help her.

However, when Lu Jie said that he would give Xie Meilan two days off, Xie Meilan subconsciously touched her belly and said:
"Mr. Lu, I would like to take a week off. I don't know..."

"of course can!"

Lu Jie immediately noticed Xie Meilan's action and agreed with a smile.

Xie Meilan nodded to thank him, but somehow, she suddenly remembered what Shen Lei had said before, that Lu Jie was already married.

So before Lu Jie left, Xie Meilan hesitated for a moment and asked:

"Mr. Lu, you found me such a big house. Will your family..."

Lu Jie raised his eyebrows, naturally understood what the other party meant, so he smiled and said:
"I think you misunderstood. My ex-wife and I have been divorced for many years. These are all my property, so I naturally have the final say."

"That's good, that's good, thank you for your help, Mr. Lu."

Xie Meilan immediately breathed a sigh of relief, not knowing whether it was because the other party was divorced or because she could live in this house.

Or maybe both.

Shen Lei said that the other party was currently married and must have been trying to get him to stay with her.

Mr. Lu is married for the second time, and so am I.

A match made in heaven!

(End of this chapter)